This guide concludes with a set of recommendations for decision-makers in local and regional governments to accelerate the adoption, replication and upscaling of smart city measures in their territories. These conclusions are:
- Achieve scale by being socially and environmentally more comprehensive and ambitious
- Govern smart developments effectively through the Integrated Management Cycle
- Achieve meaningful replication by building on existing city targets, processes and plans
- Embed smart measures into the core of urban planning
- Ensure new staff capacity and a cross-departmental approach
- Create an open alliance for Smart City applications
- Align and ally with national and regional energy and climate policies
- Make technical validations comparable to enable impact investments
- Find synergies with other SCC projects to implement more resource efficiently
- Develop location-specific innovation schemes
- Determine scalability based on experience of demonstration projects
- Budget public participation and stakeholder engagement in your implementation plan
- Allocate resources to mobilise public and private finance as well as create and maintain partnerships
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